On August 12, the Department of Natural Resources’ policy board unanimously decided to table proposed restrictions on PFAS after receiving push back from the regulated community and the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) about the scope of DNR’s authority.

GLLF submitted comments on DNR’s proposed guidance for high capacity well application review process, arguing it ignored the ongoing litigation in Clean Wisconsin v. DNR on this very issue, overstepped the boundaries of DNR’s explicit authority, and at minimum needed to go through rulemaking.

DNR moves to issue its new high capacity well application review process as guidance, a procedure that does not provide nearly the same protections as rulemaking.

DNR announced on June 2nd that it intends  to revise its high capacity well review process in response to Wisconsin Attorney […]

As we previously blogged, DNR announced on June 2nd that it intends  to revise its high capacity well review process in […]

DNR announced today its plan to revise its high capacity well review process in response to Wisconsin Attorney General Kaul’s […]